CEO's Ugly Flash-Marriage Wife Hides So Many Identities
Chapter 452: Choosing You, Sacrificing Everything

Chapter 452: Chapter 452: Choosing You, Sacrificing Everything

Qiao Rui knew that Pei Liyan was worried about something happening to her, so he didn’t want her to go out at night.

Thinking carefully about it, not going out and leaving it to the subordinates would also give them some training.

"You’re right, I won’t go anywhere, I’ll stay home with you." She smiled at him gently, realizing for the first time that Pei Liyan had a very broad mind.

Today’s events, if it were any petty man, he would be angry at her risk-taking and secrecy.

But Pei Liyan wasn’t angry. She looked at him, and a pang of guilt surged in her heart, growing stronger and stronger.

"So obedient?" Pei Liyan laughed.

"Isn’t it because I’m feeling guilty?" Qiao Rui admitted directly. "Of course, I have to make it up to you."

Pei Liyan was taken aback to see her speak so honestly, amused, realizing she understood she had hidden things and felt guilty too.

He waited for the day she would willingly open her heart.

"Good girl." Pei Liyan’s long fingers gently brushed Qiao Rui’s neck, his tone full of indulgence.

"The word ’obedient’ doesn’t quite describe me." Qiao Rui said, "I have some self-awareness."

"I noticed it when I first chose you, your hands covered in grease, deliberately wiping it on me!"

"Hahaha!" Qiao Rui laughed, "You caught me, did you realize it back then?"

"Hmm, I suspected it back then, but wasn’t so sure." Pei Liyan said, "Later, I became more certain. You, too many tricks up your sleeve."

Qiao Rui also laughed. "Who told you to choose me anyway."

Bringing up this matter again, Qiao Rui still found it unbelievable that he picked the ugliest one out of the crowd, and she was impressed.

"Love at first sight, perhaps." Pei Liyan said.

"Cough!" Qiao Rui was startled, "Ha, you can explain it however you want now."

"It might sound like I’m trying to whitewash it, but at that time, you were indeed cutely ugly, quite adorable, and perfect to irritate my grandparents."

"Ha, so you finally admit it, you picked me to annoy your grandparents." Qiao Rui pointed at his nose and asked.

Pei Liyan held her slender fingers, chuckling lightly, "No matter the initial reason, I’m grateful for my choice. I’m usually quite lucky, and it’s proven true."

Qiao Rui looked at him, her mind in a complex whirl of emotions.

Pei Liyan looked down at her fair face, noticing her expression, and raised an eyebrow, "Not happy?"

"No." Qiao Rui shook her head, her fingers scratching his palm, then giggled. "I thought it was because I seemed familiar to you."

"Familiar?" Pei Liyan was stunned, suddenly remembering what He Zheng told him before, that Qiao Rui said she had known him since that winter ten years ago.

And he thought for a long time, unable to recall where he had seen her.

"Yes, familiar, like a feeling of past and present lives?" Qiao Rui said with a smile.

Pei Liyan was momentarily speechless, meeting Qiao Rui’s eyes, where there seemed to be a glimmer of expectation.

He raised an eyebrow, "Perhaps I did know you in a past life."

Qiao Rui burst into laughter. "Just teasing you, let’s go, sleep!"

Pei Liyan glanced at her, just in time to catch a fleeting moment of disappointment in her eyes.

He tightly grasped Qiao Rui’s wrist, blurting out, "We did meet ten years ago. I really can’t remember. If you’re disappointed by that, I’m sorry."

Qiao Rui was also stunned, not expecting him to bring it up. She shook her head immediately. "It’s okay if you can’t remember, after all, it was many years ago. When this is all over, I’ll take you to the place where I used to live."

It was a form of acknowledgment, and Pei Liyan felt her recognition of him.

However, Pei Liyan also saw a hint of darkness in Qiao Rui’s eyes.

He wasn’t sure why she was keeping things hidden, but he had a feeling she had her own unspeakable reasons.

So, Pei Liyan didn’t force her to be honest.

"Alright, I’m very honored to finally have your recognition." Pei Liyan said with a smile.

Qiao Rui was momentarily speechless; he understood.

She smiled a little, "It wasn’t by choice, Mr. Pei, please be understanding."

Pei Liyan squeezed her hand, "Between husband and wife, there’s no need for such formality. If you want to be formal, I don’t mind trying something else."

Being tightly held by him, seeing the deep meaning in his eyes, Qiao Rui chuckled. "Alright, let’s go, I’ll satisfy you!"

Pei Liyan picked her up, carrying her into the room...

A long time after.

Qiao Rui was so tired she fell asleep, but Pei Liyan couldn’t sleep, staring unblinkingly at the girl sleeping beside him, trying to discern clues from her face but ultimately finding no flaws.

He was very surprised, unable to figure out how she managed to be this different.

So, unable to sleep late at night, he got up and went to the study, dialing Jiang Jinfeng’s number.

Jiang Jinfeng, receiving the call in the middle of the night, was still out and hadn’t gone home.

Seeing this call, he answered, "I mean, Mr. Pei, disturbing someone in the middle of the night isn’t appropriate, is it?"

"Tell me, why won’t Qiao Rui be honest?"

"Mr. Pei, you should ask yourself." Jiang Jinfeng said solemnly, "Are you really being honest?"

"I think I’ve been honest enough." Pei Liyan said seriously, "I always feel her dishonesty is because she plans to leave me anytime."

Jiang Jinfeng was surprised, "Not anymore."

"So it’s just as I suspected." Pei Liyan thought Qiao Rui’s initial dishonesty was because he broke their agreement.

But thinking carefully now, that might not be the whole reason.

"Just as you suspected?" Jiang Jinfeng smiled and asked in return.

"It’s not just because she thinks I’m unreliable, there should be another reason." Pei Liyan said confidently.

Jiang Jinfeng suddenly laughed, "Mr. Pei, to be honest, she was betrothed to someone else from a young age, had a fiancé she didn’t want, but returned to the Qiao Family, married and got a license with you."

"Fiancé?" Pei Liyan was shocked. "Who?"

"I don’t know him." Jiang Jinfeng said seriously, "Arranged by her grandfather."

"Her grandfather?" Pei Liyan pursued, "Elder Qiao?"

"Of course not." Jiang Jinfeng said seriously:

Pei Liyan also felt it wasn’t Elder Qiao, but suddenly there was another grandfather, which shocked him. "Then who is it?"

"Do you think Qiao Rui, in the village, abandoned at two with no one to raise her, could be this capable?" Jiang Jinfeng sighed in exasperation, "By being with you, she might give up everything, including her status as an heir. Pei Liyan, it’s not just you making sacrifices; what Qiao Rui gives up is far more than you can imagine.

In any case, don’t ask anymore, she’s made her choice, giving up everything to be with you."

Jiang Jinfeng finished speaking and hung up first.

Pei Liyan held the phone, not moving for a long time.

His heart surged, his blood boiling.

She gave up everything, her status as an heir, and if she wasn’t with him, she had a fiancé and a wonderful, prosperous future.

What on earth was she inheriting?

At this moment, in the bedroom.

Qiao Rui’s phone rang, waking her from her sleep.

She picked up the phone, glancing at the number, startled, and quickly looked around, not seeing Pei Liyan.

Only then did she answer the call, speaking softly, "Grandpa Xie!"

The voice on the other end was doting and gentle, "Young Master, the old man said, Pei Liyan is not worthy of the Young Master. Choose him or follow the old man’s arrangement, following the Young Master’s opinion, but if the choice is Pei Liyan, then everything at home will have nothing to do with the Young Master in the future."